Too bad there is little interest in classical music in the black community. Hell, there's little interest in most communities. About the only time I see blacks today in classical music is in opera. There are some very fine black opera singers.
I was very fortunate to have attended Balboa High School in San Francisco in the mid-1960s. Balboa was a mixed-race school, perhaps 30 percent black. The music teacher, Sid Walker was about the coolest hippest teacher I ever had. He worked extremely well in introducing not only jazz but classical music to all of us. He would often set up a fine stereo sound system in our Little Theater and have us just listen to different records, jazz to classical to rock. Half the members of the orchestra, jazz band and regular band were black, and many became very talented under Sid Walker. Calvin was equally proficient at jazz as he was at classical music. Here's a link to an article by a friend Wayne Wallace (well-known black jazz trombonist) who played alongside myself in the jazz band, where he mentions Sid Walker and Calvin Simmons (a few paragraphs down):
http://www.chipboaz.com/blog/2011/01/27/latin-jazz-conversations-wayne-wallace-part-2/
Wayne also makes mention that some of the members of "Malo" and "Sly and the Family Stone" had attended Balboa at the time. I happened to belong to several rock bands, one with members that formed Malo shortly after I left the music scene to concentrate on other things. There were lots of blacks engaged in the music scene, including classical, back then in the 1960s and 1970s. Not so much now.